[UK-CONTEST] Fwd: Guest Operating

[Paul Beecham]

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From: Paul Beecham <paul at attenuate.org>
Date: Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Guest Operating
To: Dave Sergeant <dave at davesergeant.com>


I don't get why any one has a problem with so called "commercial
sponsorship". It should be looked on as a feather in the amateurs cap
that our hobby is deemed important enough for a manufacturer to even
bother, surely they have bigger fish to fry than us.
My sponsor Icom support our hobby 100 % and we should be glad of it.
IOTA, DX- peditions UK Contest University, RSGB Convention to name a
few.
Any amateur that calls for a certain brand to be boycotted because of
the support they give in my view is churlish and very mean spirited
indeed.

Icom are at least giving some thing back to the contesting and amateur
radio community, the IC7700's that are here are FREE to use for ANYONE
who shows an interest in contesting, this is why Icom are happy to
supply them. They are particularly happy to support young up and
coming operators and so am I.

My personal financial and time investment at G6PZ is considerable but
I am happy to share this with YOU  the contesting community for  all
you have to do is mail me and then turn up.

I have read some very negative comments tempered with some very
positive ones. Every one is entitled to their opinion but an attack on
my station is a little below the belt when all I'm trying to do is
share my life's success and put some thing back into a hobby that  I
love.

73 Paul
G6PZ


On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Dave Sergeant <dave at davesergeant.com> wrote:
> On 23 Feb 2011 at 9:51, Ian White GM3SEK wrote:
>
>> What we actually seem to be talking about here is the difference between
>> personal satisfaction and public recognition. Contesting can give back a
>> huge amount of personal satisfaction from "doing well" - however you
>> personally choose to define that, and that's what the vast majority do.
>>
>
> Indeed, well said Ian.
>
> For what it is worth, it looks like I will be getting the G QRP
> certificate again for CQ160, and I should have beat last year's score.
> I often get these QRP section certificates, and it is relatively easy
> to be competitive in that section. No big station, in fact absolutely
> lousy, but all down to operating skill and determination. We have local
> challenges within our own club, in CC, UKAC and other contests, where
> we know each other's stations and the limitations they face - we don't
> expect to feature high up in the overall score table, but that is not
> the point, it is just local rivalry.
>
> As for commercial sponsorship of some contest stations, some may well
> consider this questionable. But you have to remember that without
> commercial sponsorship many of the big DXPeditions we all so eagerly
> chase (eg 3B7C and now T32C) would not be as successful as they have
> been and may not even have taken place. Every cloud has a silver
> lining.
>
> 73 Dave G3YMC
>
> http://www.davesergeant.com
>
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